This is Herbert.
He was all on his own, chasing his tail and trying to push the bedding everywhere when I first saw him and I fell in love. With my OH's ok, we decided to bring him home with us and try to introduce him to one of our existing pairs. Sadly they were all in failing health and on thinking about it a bit more, it didn't really seem fair.
So we adopted 3 boys of roughly the same age intending them to be friends for Herbert.
Alfie...
Chester (on the shelf) and Max (in the hammock)
Unfortunately things didn't work out and despite getting the 2 boys who were causing problems neutered the 3rd stepped into their shoes and took over beating Herbert up.
I was pondering my options when the rescue I get most of my rats from had a little 7 week old boy come in. He was with his 3 sisters but obviously they had to be seperated and he wasn't doing very well on his own... who can blame him, it's a scary old world!
So we decided that it was worth giving him a go with Herbert.
Meet Oscar...
Herbert being a big wuss, in case the tiny little baby beat him up :lol:
It took a few days for Herbert to realise Oscar wouldn't be mean to him but he finally relaxed... and my OH took this picture when I was out.
A few random pics...
He was all on his own, chasing his tail and trying to push the bedding everywhere when I first saw him and I fell in love. With my OH's ok, we decided to bring him home with us and try to introduce him to one of our existing pairs. Sadly they were all in failing health and on thinking about it a bit more, it didn't really seem fair.
So we adopted 3 boys of roughly the same age intending them to be friends for Herbert.
Alfie...
Chester (on the shelf) and Max (in the hammock)
Unfortunately things didn't work out and despite getting the 2 boys who were causing problems neutered the 3rd stepped into their shoes and took over beating Herbert up.
I was pondering my options when the rescue I get most of my rats from had a little 7 week old boy come in. He was with his 3 sisters but obviously they had to be seperated and he wasn't doing very well on his own... who can blame him, it's a scary old world!
So we decided that it was worth giving him a go with Herbert.
Meet Oscar...
Herbert being a big wuss, in case the tiny little baby beat him up :lol:
It took a few days for Herbert to realise Oscar wouldn't be mean to him but he finally relaxed... and my OH took this picture when I was out.
A few random pics...